Reminder device



Feb. 14, 1950 'r. B. ALLARDICE 2,497,285

REMINDER DEVICE Filed Feb. 1, 1947 HOUSEWIVES FOODREMINDER UGAR 3 FLOUR 22 37 EA LI."

COFFEE BAKING POWDER KETCHUP BUTTER Mom-H AND YEAR MEMO 34 IN VEN TOR. THOMAS E. A 1.4 AIQD/CE Patented Feb. 14, 1950 f UNIT ED STATE-S PATENT OFFICE REMINDER DEVICE Thomas Allardice, Mountain Lakes, N. J. Application February 1, 1947, Serial No. 725,882

The invention relates to reminder devices upon which items are to be indicated from time to time until it is desired to make use of the accumulated indications as, for example, in the case of a housewife or others making purchases in confirmity with a memorandum prepared by them from the set of Various items presented by the indicator. It is to be understood, of course, that the particular nature of the items noted on the reminder device will be in accordance with the field in which the device is to be utilized.

It is an object of the invention to provide a reminder device of this nature which will be simple both in construction and operation; and whereby it is possible to expose thereon, manually and from time to time, indications of items selected.

A further object of the invention is to provide a calendar or memorandum pad which is swingably and removably associated with the indication portion of the remainder device and upon the sheets of which may be recorded various items selected from the indications, the said sheets being separable for use when intending to make purchases of such items.

In carrying out the invention, provision is made to mount upon a back plate or panel a plurality of parallel disposed slide elements movable transversely of the panel and designed to cover or to expose alternatively adjacent portions of the panel surface on which are printed or otherwise applied indicia, for example, arranged in adjacently disposed duplicate columns setting forth the desired list of items to be recorded and of which one might wish to be reminded in making a purchase, or for other purposes.

The nature of the invention, however, will best be understood when described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the novel reminder device and illustrates several of the slide elements in adjusted position for affording indications.

Figs. 2 and 4 are respective elevations of opposite sides of the device.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through the device taken on the line 3-3, Fig. l, and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 5-5, Fig. l of the drawings, and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawings, l 0 designates a back plate or panel shaped along its two longitudinal edges to provide a forwardly-directed, right- 3 Claims. (01. 40-62) angled wall portion ll having a succession of longitudinal slot I2 spaced at equal intervals alongthe wall. The face of the panel bears ad jacently disposed columns [3 and H of sets of successive duplicate indicia, each set aligned with corresponding slots I2 and I2, respectively, and headed as indicated. Thus, in the particular embodiment herein shown in the drawings by way of example, namely: a kitchen reminder," the first set of indicia l5 shows the word sugar and likewise the indicia I6 of the adjacent column. It will be understood, of course, that the particular indicia utilized will depend upon the nature of the use to which the novel reminder device is to be put.

Extending longitudinally of the indicia face and between the adjacent columns I3 and I4 is a bar 20 having down-turned lugs 2| along its opposite longitudinal edges to contact the indicia surface of the panel and displace the bar a predetermined distance therefrom, the successive lugs affording guide openings 22 therebetween which are aligned with the various indicia of the two sets. Holding clips 23 are provided to secure the bar to the indicia surface, said clips passing through corresponding registering apertures 24 and 25 provided along the said bar and the panel, respectively. The bar 20 is thus rigidly held to the panel surface; and through the respective guide openings 22 provided, slide elements 26 are arranged to manually advanced. These are of a length somewhat greater than the distance between bar 20 and the wall portion II and are adapted for reciprocation transversely of the panel through said guide openings 22.

The said slide elements are substantially opaque and are designed to cover alternatively one indicium or the other of a set. In order to retain the slide elements to the panel, the one end of an element is adapted to enter a slot l2 while its opposite end 21 fits under the bar 20 in the guide openings 22 thereof, for example, then covering the indicia N5 of column l4. Each slide element, furthermore, is provided with an upstanding tab or suitable finger-piece 28 whereby the slide may be manipulated to uncover one of the indicia l6 exposing, for example, the word salt, and to move the same over the column [3 to cover the similar word of said column, thereby indicating that this particular item salt is to be purchased. In this position. end 21 of a slide enters the slot l2.

The matter thus indicated on the panel, namely: the indicia exposed on column l4, affords an indication to be transferred by writing the same upon a pad 30 composed of a p r l y of sheets, for example, it may be in the nature of a daily calendar comprising 365 sheets. This pad is conveniently made a part of the reminder device by dropping the same into a frame 3| provided with a bottom socket 32 and suspending the frame 3| from the bottom edge of the panel. The latter, to this end, may be provided with a pair of horizontally disposed slots 33 and similarly the frame 3l with corresponding slots 34 designed to-register with the slots' 33'z Clips or' like members 35 unite the two panels in a swingable or hinged relationship so that when a pad becomes exhausted, it may conveniently be liftedj out of its frame 3! and replaced by a nevi/padwhen the frame is swung sufliciently to allowra pad to clear the lower edge of'the' panei." I claim: Y r

sponding guides thereof, said slides being provided in proximity to the end remote from the normally bar-underlying end with an upstanding tab whereby to manipulate a slide transversely over the panel surface to expose alternatively one or the other of the duplicate adjacent indicia. of a corresponding set.

2. A reminder device according to claim 1, wherein the slides at theirrespective ends norniji'ally underlying the barjai e ahapfiea when manipulated to engage a portion of the panel upturned along one longitudinal edge of the same.

3. A reminder device according to claim 2,

' 'vvli'ereiri longitudinal slots are provided in the up- 1. A reminder device, comprising a supporting,

panel bearing upon a surface adjacently disposed columns of successivescgts of duplicate indicia, a u'id'efbar secured to tile-pa pd-exten'd 'substan: tially midway thereof longitudinally over and displaced fromfits faceto dividethe two column's' of-' indicia', said-*bar' affording with the indicia bearingsurface" of the panel parallel transverse guides alignedwith the "respective indicia of the st's and slidefel'ements; i'nfnumber equal to the indici'af of one-column each havingone end adapted to "extend under thebar through co'rr turned; panel portion to receive respectively corresponding slideeh'ds.

THOMAS B. ALLARDICE.

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